Nine cohorts of patients admitted between 1919 and 1962 have been followed up until 1971. Comparison has been made in terms of sex and age specific incidences of selected psychiatric disorders throughout the whole period.
The results of treatment have been evaluated in terms of discharge and death rates, length of stay, re-admission rates to psychiatric institutions and total period under hospitalization. These data have been compared with those available since the introduction of the statistical system in Victoria in 1961.
References
1.
DornH. F. (1938). The incidence and future expectancy of mental disease. United States Public Health Service. Public Health Reports, 53: 1991.
2.
ElkindH. B.TaylorM. (1936). The alleged increase in the incidence of the major psychoses. American Journal of Psychiatry, 92: 817.
3.
FisherJ. W.StogdillC. G. (1952). Mental illness in Canada as reflected by mental hospital admissions, 1932–1947. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 8: 336.
4.
GoldhammerH.MarshallA. W. (1953). The Frequency of Mental Disease: Long-Term Trends and Present Status.Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
5.
JacobJ. S. (1938). A note on the alleged increase of insanity. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 23: 390.
6.
KrupinskiJ.StollerA. (1962). Survey of institutionalized mental patients in Victoria, Australia; 1882–1959. Medical Journal of Australia, 1: 269, 314 and 361.
7.
MalzbergB. (1940). Social and Biological Aspects of Mental Disease.State Hospitals Press, Utica.
8.
SommerC.HarmanH. H. (1945). Trends in mental diseases in Illinois, 1922–1943, in American Psychopathological Association: Trends of Mental Disease.Kings Crown Press, New York.
9.
WinstonE. (1935). The assumed increase of mental disease. American Journal of Sociology, 40: 427.
